The Castle Church Door

1 Peter is my favorite book of the Bible, largely because it was a Bible study on this book by a previous pastor that made me want to become a pastor myself. So, I obtain all the commentaries on 1 Peter that I possibly can. I recently got a hold of this commentary on Peter/Jude. Every commentary that I have seen and worked with in this series has been ...

Terry Johnson, in the recent Festschrift for O. Palmer Robertson, advocates lectio continua Scripture reading in worship. This is defined as the systematic reading through of books of the Bible (omitting nothing), one chapter one week, the next chapter the next week, and so on. This is distinct from lectio continua preaching, which, however, has the same structure. What was so encouraging in this chapter was that it confirmed what ...

There is a new series of books being published called the Calvin 500 series. It is in honor of the 500th anniversary of Calvin’s birth. The publisher is P&R. The first volume to come out is this very fine volume. The author list is a Who’s Who of Calvin scholars: William Barker, Scott Oliphint, Robert Reymond, Douglas Kelly, Scott Clark, Joseph Pipa Jr., Michael Horton, Peter Lillback, Derek Thomas, Robert ...

Anyone interested in the relationship between Jew and Gentile in the Kingdom of God will be interested in this book. Authors include Walter Kaiser, Darrell Bock, Mitch Glaser, David Turner, and Craig Blaising. Most of the authors are from a modified, or progressive dispensational perspective, with one covenantalist (Richard Pratt) more than holding his own, and also one regular dispenstionalist. Walter Kaiser, Jr. wrote the forward, which makes this helpful point: ...

You need to buy this book straightway. Essays are by such folk as Nick Willborn, Bruce Waltke, Benjamin Shaw, Richard Gaffin, George Knight, Knox Chamblin, Simon Kistemaker, Robert Reymond, Douglas Kelly, Richard Phillips (on baptism in 1 Peter 3:21!), Guy Waters (on Norman Shepherd’s theology, presumably a summary of his upcoming book!), Dunkin Rankin, Dominic Aquila, Joey Pipa, Terry Johnson, Michael Milton, Chad Van Dixhorn, Morton Smth, and Will Barker.   ...

I fully expect to be alternately enthralled and infuriated by this book. Certainly, one cannot remain neutral for very long about anything that Frame says. The book contains a rather full (470 pages!) exposition of the Ten Commandments. An important contribution to the field of ethics. The book as a whole is over 1100 pages.

Announcing the Festschrift for Richard Gaffin! It is edited by two very good friends of mine at WTS, Lane Tipton and Jeff Waddington. It is a veritable feast of biblical-theological reflections. You can see its table of contents here.

This is the title of a new book by Scott Oliphint (professor of apologetics at WTS) and Rod Mays (national coordinator of RUM, the campus ministry of the PCA). The book was inspired by the hymn “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken.” The book is divided into five chapters, entitled “Says Who? He Whose Word Cannot Be Broken,” “Our Deepest Need: See! The Streams of Living Waters,” “We Are ...

Contributors to this book include Blocher, Carson, McCormack, Helm, Wright, and MacLeod.

Jonah is one of my favorite books of the Bible, and this author is one of my favorite authors. The combination is sure to be good.